Testifying expert for plaintiff’s counsel in connection
with TRADEMARK and COPYRIGHT infringement
claims made against defendants. Conducted forensic
accounting analysis to discover amounts of infringed
sales and calculated three components of damages allowed: 1) Defendant’s profit; 2) Actual damages of
plaintiff; and 3) Costs of the action. Prepared mediation
and trial schedule in anticipation of settlement or trial.

Defense expert for Transportation Corporation where an estate of
a deceased individual brought claims against corporation for
future lost profits from a business enterprise. Analyzed plaintiff’s
damage calculations, prepared independent calculation of actual
damages, and prepared mediation exhibits in anticipation of trial
or settlement.

Defense expert for Transportation Corporation where an estate of
a deceased individual brought claims against corporation for
future lost profits from a business enterprise. Analyzed plaintiff’s
damage calculations, prepared independent calculation of actual
damages, and prepared mediation exhibits in anticipation of trial
or settlement.

the ocean and I’d always wanted to. So
when we had the opportunity to take
time off—my wife, Sally, was concluding
one job and I could take a sabbatical
at my law firm—we got a 39-foot cutter,
a sailboat, with the intention of taking
a long sailing trip, and we wound up
taking it out of Seattle, down the coast,
off to the Marquesas Islands, to Tahiti
and Bora Bora and then, eventually,
back to Honolulu and back to Seattle—
over about two years.

The sailboat trip and my earlyGloucester years played a big part indetermining what this story would be about.LINDLEY: What are a few things you’dlike readers to know about Gloucesterand conditions in the 19th century?

BAGSHAW: Back in the 19th century,
Gloucester was the biggest fishing
port in the world. At any one time, at
least 400 fishing vessels were sailing
out to various banks. Fishing was so
dangerous that it was almost a self-inflicted genocide. In 25 years, from
1860 to 1885, over 300 schooners sank
on the banks out of Gloucester, and

2,400 men died. And I thought: what
about all the women? In those days,
there weren’t many things a woman
could do to support herself. Basically,
the main choice for a woman widowed
in those days was to find herself a new
husband right away or go back and live
with her parents and take her kids with
her. If you couldn’t do one of those two
things, your life would be desperate.

Those are the people I write about,exemplified most by Maggie O’Grady.She meets obstacles and she has flaws,but she perseveres and triumphs.LINDLEY: Was your protagonist,Maggie, based on a particular person?

BAGSHAW: Maggie isn’t based onanyone. I did have an Irish great-grandmother named Margaret. That’swhere I got the name. I never met her,but she was well known in the familyas a powerful woman. She and mygreat-grandfather established a smallbusiness and he died relatively young.

She took over the business and ran it.
And she was renowned for taking over
a business and making it work. To that
extent, Maggie is somewhat based on
my great-grandmother.

For the Irish part, my dad wasone-quarter Irish with the onegrandmother, but if anyone asked hisethnicity, he said, “I’m Irish!” He wasproud of that. I got a little of that, andI’m one-eighth Irish. So that was alsoin there.

LINDLEY: Your novel also details life
in a brothel and the day-to-day lives
of the prostitutes and the men who
frequented the establishment. Does
Gloucester have a brothel museum?
We see these in some western towns
like Wallace, Idaho.